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DOCUMENT Citation Only Poul E Graversen.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "A Decade of DPAA: Challenges and Opportunities to the Accounting Mission", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. DPAA currently estimates that approximately 2,000 U.S. Sailors and Marines are entombed aboard dozens of ships and submarines that sunk during World War II in the Java and South China Seas. Large scale illegal salvaging companies have been targeting the steel and iron of these WWII-era vessels. This...